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Pro-Trump conservative reacts after being banned from CNN for racist comments

Umito October 30, 2024

Conservative commentator Ryan Girdusky has been banned from CNN after making a racist comment on the air of journalist Mehdi Hasan referring to the deadly pager attack in Lebanon last month.

Monday night’s controversial panel on “CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip” featured Hasan, Girdusky and other guests discussing the Donald Trump situation. gathering at Madison Square Garden on Sunday. Hasan, an outspoken critic of Israel’s military conduct in Gaza and former MSNBC anchor, said he supported the Palestinians, to which Girdusky casually responded: “Well, I hope your beeper doesn’t go off.” not “.

Lebanon’s health minister said at least 37 people, including two children, were killed in last month’s attack. Explosive pagers and walkie-talkieswhich is widely believed to have been carried out by Israel. Thousands of civilians and Hezbollah militants were injured.

Girdusky’s comment was immediately dismissed by some of the show’s guests, as well as host Phillip, who said it was “completely out of character.”

“Then I apologize,” he replied. “I thought he said Hamas; I apologize.”

The show went on a commercial break shortly after, and when he returned, Phillip told viewers that Girdusky had crossed “the line into a complete lack of civility” and was removed from the show. CNN soon published a statement saying there is “no place for racism or intolerance at CNN or on our airwaves” and that Girdusky “will not be welcome on our network.”

Girdusky is not the kind of right-wing figure known for inflammatory remarks that attract widespread attention. But he is not an unknown entity either.

Girdusky is the founder of Project 1776 PACa right-wing group aiming to stack school boards across the country with conservatives »who oppose political indoctrination.” He seat on the board of directors of American Moment, a public policy organization that has links with the 2025 project. Girdusky said he was friends with Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, and he appeared on Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes’ podcast.

This also wasn’t the first time Girdusky made inflammatory statements on CNN.

This also wasn’t the first time Girdusky made inflammatory statements on CNN. Just a few weeks ago, on Phillips’ show, he claimed without proof that the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 after the police killing of George Floyd “resulted in the deaths of more than 15,000 black men in this country” due to “the rise in violent crime.”

Despite his repeated apologies during Monday’s show, Girdusky later changed his tune: write partly on: “Apparently you can’t go on CNN if you make a joke.”